Capacity Building

The ISI has been actively helping to build capacity in low and middle income countries / regions. The 2013 White Paper on statistical capacity building defines our objectives as:

enabling statistical practitioners in the public and private sectors to use state-of-the-art methods for data collection, analysis and interpretation;
contributing to the development of statistical infrastructure and human resources in official, survey, and business statistics as well as in statistical education and research.

Several workshops have been conducted over the last few years to train senior staff in national statistical offices on improving the quality of statistical information.

The ISI has also funded the organization of workshops and conferences on statistical practice in Africa and Asia. The Bernoulli Society and the ISI have partnered with the University of Oslo to develop a virtual mentoring program for PhD students.

In addition, participants from low and middle income countries / regions have been supported for participation at ISI and Association conferences. These activities have been funded through World Bank Trust Funds for Statistical Capacity Building and by the African Development Bank.

The ISI Strategic Plan 2022-2025 defines capacity building as one of the Strategic Priorities of the ISI.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES 2022-2025

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Capacity Building Committee

To accelerate our efforts in low and middle income countries / regions, in 2013 the ISI launched the ISI Capacity Building Committee. Its role is to advise the ISI Executive Committee on the planning, development and implementation of appropriate initiatives, besides promoting them directly.

The Committee’s objectives, as stated above, are very broad and can be seen to cover many of the ISI’s overall objectives. ISI and its Associations should work together more closely and provide good coordination, cooperation and communication with other Statistical Capacity Building providers:

to focus and to clarify the ISI priorities and capabilities,
to define the role of the Statistical Capacity Building Committee more specifically, and
to define our strategic contribution among the other SCB players.

Task force and Committee

In 2018 the ISI Executive Committee (EC) appointed the Task Force. The Task Force was co-chaired by Fabrizio Ruggeri and Irena Krizman. Committee members: Pedro Silva, Misha Belkindas, Eric Vance, David Stern, Matthew Shearing, Delia North, Diane Stukel.

The Task Force prepared the Capacity Building Strategy and Action Plan 2019–2021 and Beyond. To accelerate the Capacity Building activities, the Execuitve Committee has launched this ISI Capacity Building Committee.

Statistical Capacity Building Strategy Action Plan-2019-2021 and Beyond